Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 06:56:42 -0800 (PST) From: Dennis Jun <dennisjun@yahoo.com> To: Soulofwolf899@cs.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Before I return FreeBSD to the store... Message-ID: <19991230145642.11349.qmail@web602.mail.yahoo.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 30 December 1999 at 0:12:51 -0500, Soulofwolf899@cs.com wrote: > To whom it concerns, > > I have just one question to ask before I decide to purchase 3.4 after I > return 3.3 to the software superstore where I purchased it... have you fixed > the damned installation error which prevents me from installing the software > with an APTAI CD-ROM? This is from the FreeBSD 3.3 Errata Notes at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/3.3R/errata.html <snip> The 3.3 ISO image (and 3.3 CDROM #1 from Walnut Creek CDROM) mysteriously fails to boot on an ATAPI CDROM device but works with SCSI CDROMs (on adaptors which support bootable CDs). Fix: Either install using boot floppies (see floppies/README.TXT) rather than booting from the CDROM or grab the updated ISO image from: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/ See also the CHECKSUM.MD5 file in that directory to verify whether you have the "old" or new image - some mirrors may be slow in picking up the uncompressed and gzipped versions of the ISO 9660 installation image. As always, Walnut Creek CDROM will also provide replacement CDs (once they become available) on request to purchasers of the 3.3-RELEASE product. This problem was caused by a bug in mkisofs which we're still chasing but have, for now, simply worked-around. <snip> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.1 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>; iQA/AwUBOGtyGG4j/qjLO4KIEQIxhACfQpaGxaqZ/JXElse3Yk57aEJCVZIAn3C+ Xs5S9XYRomWHkU1dp73ayTAW =M+uA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ===== PGP public key: http://i.am/dennisjun/ or ldap://certserver.pgp.com/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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